Ep. 151: A rerun of our conversation with Naunihal Singh about coups

<p>This week&apos;s episode is a rerun of a conversation we had with coup expert Naunihal Singh, inspired by his <a href='https://twitter.com/naunihalpublic/status/1575832851635122177?s=20&amp;t=4OOHn1tKYuKFDJV8tt2PXA'>recent tweets </a>about another coup attempt in Burkina Faso.<br/><br/>In this conversation from April 2022, Singh breaks down what coups are, shares how he began studying them, and what we should know about what was happening on the continent at the time.<br/><br/><b>Books, Links, &amp; Articles</b></p><ul><li><a href='https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/10989/seizing-power'><em>Seizing Power: The Strategic Logic of Military Coups</em></a> by <a href='https://mobile.twitter.com/naunihalpublic'>Naunihal Singh</a></li><li><a href='https://wwnorton.com/books/born-in-blackness'><em>Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War</em></a> by Howard W. French </li><li><a href='https://www.wiley.com/en-es/Decolonizing+Politics%3A+An+Introduction-p-9781509539406'><em>Decolonizing Politics: An Introduction</em></a> by Robbie Shilliam</li><li><a href='https://publishing.tor.com/remotecontrol-nnediokorafor/9781250772800/'><em>Remote Control</em></a> by Nnedi Okorafor </li></ul>